I miss some good shoot-them-up like stargunner or entertaining like Apidaya.

The Sky force [External Link]'s game are a nice go for shmup on linux and steam deck, and playing in coop locally with children or friends. I warmly recommend.

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Quoting: MicHaeL_MonStaRFunny how 'Mirror's Edge' is "DRM-free", yet I have it on disc (for PC from the original release) and could not activate its code due to servers being down. I had to resort to digitizing my copy through Origin (which actually did recognize the years-old code) some time ago.

So much for the whole "physical is ownership" thing, huh... Cool that it's on GOG, though.

Same experiences with many games on my side with Diablo I & II, Unreal, AVP, Dungeon keeper II, etc.

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From 5.8.0, users will instead be directed to choose a game when first starting Minetest. Minetest Game will still be available to download, but the user will see other games as well. This gives greater visibility to the wide range Minetest has to offer.

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What new players will see when they open up Minetest.

That's a super good idea! Thanks for that smart move. I had trouble to explain each time to new people, and specially young ones, how it works. Now that's explicit.
Thank you for your incredible work and for listening the community, especially the new comers.

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Streets of Rogue is only classified "steam deck playable"?
In my mind, it would be the best way to play it, on the steam deck (that I don't have), even if it is really fun to play with friends and relative on the same PC

shadow warrior 2 is so much fun, is it fun to play on the deck?

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Paradox, the DLC runner... One finished game costs ~150€, and will be barely finished for this amount.

4x is hard to dosage.
Odd world tried: too messy, too complex for too few rewards, AI has no flaw even in the lower difficulty, after the initial "wow" of the things to manage, you are left with a felling of "all that for that?!"

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Quoting: EhvisThis clearly demonstrates that the idea of client side anti-cheat is a problem. It is used as a replacement for proper server side checking because it's a cheap solution. EAC only seems to catch the low hanging fruit with a bunch of false positives to go with it (not just the Linux players).

Yes, the server anti-cheat would be a plus, and I hope they already have (for instance, checking for a max speed won't be of some difficulties as they had a reward for making some distance per game for octane, and identifying speed hack thus should be possible).

But paying ~5 guys worldwide (for sure in cheap country with decent computer competences and a good equipment, like india for asia area, Romania or marocco for europe & africa areas, etc.) not 24/24 on each area and considering that you clearly have peaks in the evening in each area, and considering that the dissuasion (especially if a bit random over time) won't be that expensive, and that EA will anyway have to pay people to treat complaining on forum/assistance and on the social networks in terms of communication.
Remember we are talking about a company declaring his income on Apex to be $160 to 180 million $ per year (even if complaining that the increase was not as much as they expected last year, but in a finite world, increasing the expected income from a game as a limit also! and doesn't decrease the net income from this game....I bet most companies would love to still have that yearly net income on a finished game, marginally developed, for 13 years!). And remember that EA makes 7.500 billion $ per year while Apex is one of their top-3 horsepower games and one of their showcase product.

So no paying real human behind the screen is just a short term choice for greedy (as concerning a really small percentage of the income) and ideological goals intended to satisfy the shareholders, rather than intended to the quality of the product and to satisfy and retain the consumers.

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The true problem, beyond the fact that Anti-Cheat solutions are not correctly ported to Gnu-linux systems, is that there are far too few true humans to support such a game that is in the top-10 list of games daily played (still reaching 500k players per day) and making money.


On Apex, cheaters are clearly a plague: they appear massively every "scholar-holiday" periods: last week I saw so many players with speed and auto-aim hacks, and we can't any more report.
With a player reported x times in few minutes, and a handful of real human behind screens (one by worldwide area) to watch and ban cheaters, it should be fast for a real human to check by looking 1 minute this player if true or false positive.
The true point is that they are no human behind the screen, and counting on only-automated scripts can't be adapted to such a dynamical human process as cheating is.

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I need to install a new linux. I should give it a try, see how does it compare to Linux Voyager, I probably choose between one these two

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will be fun to play with sons, they asked for. Perfect

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Again, about my experience: playing on linux 80% of my time, switching for some games on my windows session for ~20%. I'm a gamer: playing nearly 2 to 3h per days. This was the exactly 12th time last month, since 2012 (I begun to count), that Steam asks me my config stuff while I'm on my windows session. Was only asked on linux one time while being on my laptop during a trip abroad (I nearly play around 10 days per year on my laptop, always when moving from house).

I'm a probabilist for my job, this succession of events are uneven. Steam MUST ask users to declare their prefered plateform at some point, before (to be sure to be surveyed when on this machine) or during the survey at least, especially considering that it matters for the market.

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